Abstract

Documentaion of works: Section 1 proposal, section 2 theoretical submissions, section 3 documentation of works, section 4 work processes.My work anchors itself in the specificity of thephotographic record. Although it is an accepted fact thatphotographs lie, at the same time it can be argued that theydo contain an element of truth - a knowledge that at sometime an event occurred and was recorded. It is thisinherent photographic quality, this dichotomy betweenrepresentation and construction, reality and imaginationthat I intend to investigate and use to pose questions aboutour own notions of reality, of the world we exist in and ofwho or what we are.To date all my concerns have involved a progression towardsthis point. My first major piece (Queenstown), deliberatelymis-used time and place. The latest work (Untitled 1983),used an almost filmic technique - a series of frozenphotographic moments to allow the viewer space to enter.This desire to manipulate the photographic moment along withthe concerns of alienation and vulnerability, of barriersand the need to break them, form the basis for my currentmotivation.My recent work comes from both observed experience and froma strong personal feeling of self investigation, growth andstruggle. The work is intended to explore the state of fluxin human existence - to reveal both the outer precariousnessand vulnerability and the inner conflicting desires andfears that form and shape a personality. Munch has been asource here in the way that, for me, his figures seem aboutto shatter and dissolve into a landscape which itself seemsready to dissolve.

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